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Need advice on managing herd

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I've got over 20 machines cranking away on RC5. I see a drop in keyrate over 2 days. Yesterday I had my greatest day yet with 8,911 blocks done at 27Mkeys/sec. Today I am seeing a loss of about 5Mkeys/sec.

It will be days before I am able to check each machine to see where I am losing blocks. They are mostly running Win9x. I can check some of them using the remote service manager I downloaded off d.net however it is a bit buggy and sometimes dnetc is stopped as as service on remote machines when I exit it.

I've been thinking about giving discounts to my consulting customers if they run dnetc.

Perhaps I should use a personal proxy?
The RC5 crackers at work are behind a firewall, and they'd all supply a single IP address if I ran the proxy from my home office. I guess I'd have to run a proxy at the office and another one at the home office?

Any advice on this topic is appreciated. It's killing me that I got nodes out there not contributing, but I don't have the time to go looking for them.

Thanks,

 
A PProxy is certainly one option but you'd still need a stats program to go with it so it might be a bit of overkill for what you're looking for. One option you could employ, if all the machines are on the same network, is toi get the clients to write the log files to a shared folder, either on eah client, or on a central location. You could then use something like the CowControl utility to scan the logfiles and show you the stats for each client.
 
I use a pproxy and no stats software. I just import the log data into a spreadsheet and create a pivot table with the rows being ip address as the columns being the hour of the day. I can see if a particular PC has locked up or is offline pretty quickly as I have each of them dumping to my pproxy every half hour. I can send you a copy of the spreadsheet if you like.
 
If you're strictly cracking RC5 (no DES or OGR), consider running v2.7105.432 GUI clients. Works great with Win98 and Win2K.

Win98 might need a reboot every other day depending on the number of programs running and the amount of memory available.
 


<< I've been thinking about giving discounts to my consulting customers if they run dnetc. >>


oh yeah... he's in
 
GeoffS--could you email me a copy of the spreadsheet or explain how you did it--I'm using a stats program now and it's OK, but I haven't been able to figure out how to tie it into Excel--thanks!
 
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